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Students create ‘AdBlocker for the real world’

Jan

24

2015

Four students have glasses developed brands and ads fades from real life. They use a database of images. Really user-friendly, the glasses at the moment yet.

The students of the Penn- and Johns Hopkins universities made ​​their own glasses, in appearance similar to a virtual reality goggles that filters the images. The chip on board the glasses filter images that the camera makes based on a database of advertising and brands. When a match is blurred and unrecognizable advertisements displayed on the screen of the glasses.

The glasses are currently still very high and the frame rate of the stream is still very low, so the glasses are far from suitable for everyday use. Another limitation is that the ads and brands all have to stand in a database before they can be filtered, so the detection is not foolproof. Finally, it seems the glasses have difficulty moving images.

According to the students, the technology can be further developed and the glasses can be made smaller, though it is unclear whether they are self that plan. They used the sift algorithm to recognize images, which was implemented using Python and OpenCV . It is not known whether the students for their ideas were inspired by John Carpenter’s film from 1988 They Live ,